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Welcome to the Metropolitan Transport Forum

The Metropolitan Transport Forum (MTF) is an advocacy group comprising
members from Melbourne metropolitan local government, associate members
representing transport companies, and participants from the State
Government and environment groups.

MTF Executive for 2019

The MTF Officer Bearers and Executive for 2019 (as elected at the
February meeting) are as follows:

A strategy workshop confirmed bus and improving bus patronage as a
priority for 2019, and a bus forum MTF loves buses was held October
2019 exploring the role and opportunities for local governments to
improve bus services in their municipalities. The 60+ attendance
from local governments heard from

Department of Transport

MTCagney Consulting (on Brisbane busways)

Infrastructure Victoria (immediate actions to tackle congestion)

Professor Graham Currie (what councils can do to improve buses)

RACV (journey planner app arevo)

Philip Mallis, Darebin (using bus data)

Movement & Place Consulting (local bus priority)

Phillip Boyle & Associates (Footscray Station bus interchange)

Advocacy 2018 - MTF transport forums

The pre-election Council-based transport forums have become a regular
event for the MTF, and have been organised in the lead-up to the 2010,
2014 and now 2018 state elections to enable the community to debate local
transport issues with election candidates. In 2018 14 forums were held by
member councils in metropolitan Melbourne. They were organised by
Greg Day, Edunity, and all proceedings can be found at www.transportforum.org.au.

Advocacy 2017 - MTF event Bus
Matters

As a lead event for the MTF bus advocacy program for 2017/2018 the
MTF hosted a forum on Tuesday 31st October 2017 focussing on what can
be done to help buses play a greater role in the local transport
mix. An interesting line up of speakers provided valuable
insight into the bus sector as follows:

A workshop organised by Phillip Boyle and Associates (PBA) followed
in the afternoon working through the many issues to do with buses and
concentrating into some common themes of importance to all member
councils. These will be carried on for future
advocacy.

In 2018 bus advocacy has been maintained as an underfunded and much
needed element of the public transport system, which despite a number
of major rail projects, is still the only public transport option for
much of Melbourne. See www.billions4buses.melbourne
for ongoing bus advocacy.

General Background

The Metropolitan Transport Forum (MTF) is an advocacy group
comprising members from Melbourne metropolitan local government,
associate members representing transport companies, and participants
from the State Government and environment groups.

The MTF endeavours to promote effective, efficient and equitable
transport in metropolitan Melbourne and improved transport choices
by

providing a forum for debate among members of the transport sector

encouraging information sharing among member local governments

representing local government viewpoint to decision makers

fostering and sponsoring research on occasion

seeking to influence transport policy and project implementation in
the broader metropolitan interest

working with local government counterparts

enabling networking and collaboration between local and state
government

disseminating information on transport topics.

The MTF holds a regular monthly meeting on the first Wednesday of the
month which includes a presentation on a transport topic of interest
and relevance to local governments. Meetings are open to all,
please contact mtf@ if interested to attend.